NIUPRESS
FALL WINTER 2016
N E W F O R FA L L 2 0 1 6
Socialist Churches 1
New in Paperback 9–13
Mother of the Church 2
Slavic Series 14–15
Fyodor Dostoevsky: In the Beginning
(1821–1845) 3
The Europeanized Elite in Russia,
1762–1825 4
Underground Petersburg 5
The True Significance of Sacred
Tradition and Its Great Worth, by
St. Raphael M. Hawaweeny 6
Illinois State Redbirds Football 8
Orthodox Series 16
Selected Backlist 17–20
RUSSIAN HISTORY / RELIGION
Socialist Churches
Radical Secularization and the
Preservation of the Past in Petrograd
and Leningrad, 1918–1988
Catriona Kelly
“This is a major contribution to the field; there is no
similar work. It opens a new lens for us to understand
the Soviet Union and also complements work on
church history, historic preservation, and city planning.
Kelly engages extensively with the literature in all of
those fields and manages to pack an incredible amount
of detail into a highly readable and engaging text.”
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—Karl Qualls, author of From Ruins to Reconstruction:
Urban Identity in Soviet Sevastopol after World War II
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C at ri ona Ke lly is professor of Russian at the University of Oxford
and a fellow of New College. She has written widely on Russian cultural
history, including St Petersburg: Shadows of the Past.
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n R u s s i a , l e g i s l a t i o n on the separation of church and
state in early 1918 marginalized religious faith and raised pressing
questions about what was to be done with church buildings. While
associated with suspect beliefs, they were also regarded as structures
with potential practical uses, and some were considered works of art.
This engaging study draws on religious anthropology, sociology, cultural
­studies, and history to explore the fate of these “socialist churches,” ­showing
how attitudes and practices related to them were shaped both by laws on
the preservation of monuments and anti-religious measures. Advocates
of preservation, while sincere in their desire to save the buildings, were
indifferent, if not hostile, to their religious purpose. Believers, on the other
hand, regarded preservation laws as irritants, except when they provided
leverage for use of the buildings by church communities. The situation
was eased by the growing rapprochement of the Orthodox Church and
Soviet state organizations after 1943, but not fully resolved until the Soviet
Union fell apart.
Based on abundant archival documentation, Catriona Kelly’s powerful narrative portrays the human tragedies and compromises, but also
the ­remarkable achievements, of those who fought to preserve these
­important buildings over the course of seven decades of state atheism.
Socialist ­Churches will appeal to specialists, students, and general readers
interested in church history, the history of architecture, and Russian art,
history, and cultural studies.
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RUSSIAN HISTORY / FRENCH HISTORY / WOMEN’S STUDIES
Mother of the Church
Sofia Svechina, the Salon, and the
Politics of Catholicism in Nineteenth­Century Russia and France
Tatyana V. Bakhmetyeva
“In this engaging intellectual biography of the R­ ussian
noblewoman Sophia Svechina, ­Bakhmetyeva provides
authoritative close readings and analyses of primary
sources, presenting to her readers letters to and from
Svechina, as well as quotations from important religious
writings. Svechina’s personality and influence come alive
in the narrative.”
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—Christine Worobec, author of Possessed: Women,
Witches, and Demons in Imperial Russia (NIU Press, 2001)
o f i a P e t r o v n a S v e c h i n a (1782–1857), better known as
Madame Sophie Swetchine, was the hostess of a famous nineteenthcentury Parisian salon. A Russian émigré, Svechina moved to
France with her husband in 1816. She had recently converted to Roman
Catholicism, and the salon she opened acquired a distinctly religious
character. It quickly became one of the most popular salons in Paris and
was a meeting place for the French intellectual Catholic elite and members
of the Liberal Catholic movement.
As a salonniére, Svechina developed close friendships with some of the
most noted public figures in the Liberal Catholic movement. Her involvement
with her guests went deeper than the typical salonniére’s. She was a mentor,
spiritual counselor, and intellectual advisor to many distinguished Parisian
men and women, and her influence extended beyond the walls of her salon
into the public world of politics and ideas.
In this fascinating biography, Tatyana Bakhmetyeva seeks to understand
the creative process that informed Svechina’s life and examines her subject
in the context of nineteenth-century thought and letters. It will appeal to
educated readers interested in European and Russian history, the history of
Catholicism, and women’s history.
Tat ya na V. Ba kh m et y eva is a lecturer at the Susan B. Anthony
Institute for Gender, Sexuality, and Women’s Studies at the University
of Rochester.
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L I T E R AT U R E / B I O G R A P H Y / R U S S I A N S T U D I E S
Fyodor Dostoevsky:
In the Beginning
(1821–1845) A Life in Letters, Memoirs,
and Criticism
Thomas Gaiton Marullo
“This impressive collection of translated primary
sources represents a significant contribution to the
wide audience of admirers (and no small audience of
detractors) of Dostoevsky. It will be especially helpful
to those who do not know the Russian language and
hence lack access to many of the memoirs.”
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—Irwin Weil, author of From the Cincinnati Reds to
the Moscow Reds
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Th omas Ga i ton M a ru l l o is professor of Russian and Russian
literature at the University of Notre Dame. His publications include
Heroine Abuse: Dostoevsky’s Netochka Nezvanova and the Poetics of
Codependency (NIU Press, 2015).
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o r e t h a n a century after his death in 1881, Fyodor
­Dostoevsky continues to fascinate readers and reviewers.
Countless studies of his writing have been published—more
than a dozen in the past few years alone. In this important new work,
Thomas Marullo provides a diary-portrait of Dostoevsky’s early years
drawn from the letters, memoirs, and criticism of the writer, as well as
from the testimony and witness of family and friends, readers and
reviewers, and observers and participants in his life.
Marullo’s exhaustive search of published materials on Dostoevsky
sheds light on many unexplored corners of Dostoevsky’s childhood,
adolescence, and youth. Speakers of excerpts are given maximum freedom:
Anything they said about the writer—the good and the bad, the truth and
the lies—are included, with extensive footnotes providing correctives,
counter-arguments, and other pertinent information.
The first part of this volume, “All in the Family,” focuses on Dostoevsky’s
early formation and schooling, i.e., his time in city and country, and his
ties to his family, particularly his parents. The second section, “To Petersburg!,” features ­Dostoevsky’s early days in Russia’s imperial city, his years at
the Main Engineering Academy, and the death of his father. The third part,
“Darkness before Dawn,” deals with the writer’s youthful struggles and
strivings, culminating in the success of his work, Poor Folk. This clear and
comprehensive portrait of one of the world’s greatest writers will a­ ppeal to
students, teachers, and scholars of Dostoevsky’s early life, as well as general
readers interested in Dostoevsky, literature, and history.
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R U S S I A N H I S T O R Y / C U LT U R A L S T U D I E S
The Europeanized
Elite in Russia,
1762–1825
Public Role and Subjective Self
Edited by Andreas Schönle,
Andrei Zorin, and Alexei Evstratov
“This groundbreaking volume offers an effective
balance between posing broad questions and
analyzing particular examples (in a series of paired
micro-histories or case studies), and it challenges
the imagination, opening the way for further
thought and investigation.”
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—Marcus Levitt, author of The Visual Dominant in
Eighteenth-Century Russia (NIU Press, 2011)
h i s i l l u m i n a t i n g v o l u m e provides a new understanding of the subjective identity and public roles of Russia’s
Europeanized elite between the years of 1762 and 1825. Through a
series of rich case studies, the editors reconstruct the social group’s worldview, complex identities, conflicting loyalties, and evolving habits. The
studies explore the institutions that shaped these nobles, their a­ ttitude
toward state service, the changing patterns of their family life, their
emotional world, religious beliefs, and sense of time.
The creation of a Europeanized elite in Russia was a state-initiated
project that aimed to overcome the presumed “backwardness” of the
country. The evolution of this social group in its relations to political
authority provides insight into the fraught identity of a country developing on the geopolitical periphery of Europe. In contrast to ­postcolonial
studies that explore the imposition of political, social, and cultural
structures on colonized societies, this multidisciplinary volume explores
the patterns of behavior and emotion that emerge from the processes of
self-Europeanization.
The Europeanized Elite in Russia, 1762–1825 will appeal to scholars
and general readers interested in Russian history and culture, particularly
in light of current political debates about globalization and widening
social inequality in Europe.
An dre as S c h ön l e is professor of Russian at Queen Mary
­University of London.
An dre i Z orin is professor of Russian at the University of Oxford and
a fellow of New College.
Ale x e i Evst r atov is a POINT fellow at the Dahlem Humanities
Center (Freie Universität Berlin).
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RUSSIAN HISTORY / URBAN STUDIES
Underground
Petersburg
Radical Populism, Urban Space,
and the Tactics of Subversion in
Reform-Era Russia
Christopher Ely
“Christopher Ely has written a timely, cogent, and
­compelling analysis of political terrorism as it
emerged and took shape in Russia at the end of the
1870s. This study is full of valuable insights into the
nature of u­ rban life in the two decades after the
serf ­emancipation of 1861 and forces the reader to
­reconsider the reasons for the embrace of terror tactics
by one wing of the Russian revolutionary movement.”
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—Robert Weinberg, Swarthmore College
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C h ri stoph e r E ly is associate professor of history at the Harriet L.
Wilkes Honors College of Florida Atlantic University. He is the author of
This Meager Nature: Landscape and National Identity in Imperial Russia
and coeditor of Space, Place, and Power in Modern Russia, both published
by NIU Press.
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l t h o u g h t h e r a d i c a l populist movement that arose
in Russia during the reign of Tsar Alexander II has been well
­documented, this important study opens with questions that
haven't yet been addressed: How did Russian radical populists ­manage
to carry out a three-year campaign of revolutionary violence, killing
or wounding scores of people, including top government officials, and
­eventually taking the life of the tsar himself? And how did this all occur
under the noses of the tsar’s political police, who deployed vast resources
and huge numbers of officials in an exhaustive effort to stop the killing?
In Underground Petersburg, Christopher Ely argues that the most
powerful weapon of populist terrorism was the revolutionary underground it created. Attempts to convey populist ideals in the public sphere
met with resistance at every turn. When methods such as propaganda
campaigns and street demonstrations failed, populists created a sophisti­
cated urban underground. Linked to the newly discovered weapon of
terrorist violence, this base of operations allowed them to live undetected
in the midst of the city, produce their own weaponry, and attempt to ignite
an insurrection through violent attacks—putting terrorism on the map as
a technique of political rebellion.
Accessible to non-specialists, this insightful study reinterprets radical
populism, clarifying its crucial place in Russian history and elucidating its
contribution to the history of terrorism. Underground Petersburg will appeal
to scholars and students of Russia, as well as those interested in terrorism and
insurrectionary movements, urban studies, and the sociology of subcultures.
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ORTHODOX CHRISTIAN STUDIES
The True Significance of Sacred Tradition and
Its Great Worth, by St. Raphael M. Hawaweeny
A Nineteenth-Century Orthodox Response to Roman Catholic and
Protestant Missionaries in the East
Patrick Demetrios Viscuso
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“Much of the cause for our personal delight in receiving and reading this book derives from the wonderful
and moving insights that it provides in returning our memory and heart to a time when this unique
Theological School still vibrantly functioned, when the value of learning classical and foreign languages
was held in high regard, and when students of theology engaged with sources both inside and outside
of their traditions in order to present our world with scholarly studies that are not disconnected from, but
firmly contribute to contemporary society.”
—Bartholomew, Archbishop of Constantinople-New Rome and Ecumenical Patriarch
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Patrick Viscuso is a professor of canon law, an Orthodox ­canonist,
a priest of the Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of America, and an
­Orthodox member of the North American Orthodox-Catholic
­Theological Consultation.
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ever before published, the theological thesis of St. ­Raphael
Hawaweeny (1860–1915) is a fascinating work that shows
the intersection of Catholicism, Protestantism, and ­Eastern
­Orthodoxy in the late nineteenth century. Canonized by the Orthodox
Church in 2000, St. Raphael was the first Orthodox bishop consecrated
in the Western hemisphere. His thesis reflects the life of the ­Orthodox
community under Ottoman rule and is an apologia for Orthodox
­tradition, acting as a response to arguments advanced by Roman
­Catholic and Protestant ­missionaries in the Middle East.
Patrick Viscuso’s introduction explains the complex historical and
theological forces at work in St. Raphael’s world. Beginning in the
sixteenth century, the Catholic Church launched proselytization efforts
toward ­Orthodox Christians in the Ottoman Empire with the support
of the ­Western powers. In the late nineteenth century, the United States
­dominated Protestant efforts in the region. The powerful language in St.
Raphael’s thesis and his refutation of Catholic and Protestant positions
reflect an active dialogue with Western Christianity.
The thesis was written as part of the requirements for graduation from the Theological School of the Great Church of Christ, an
­institution of the ­Ecumenical Patriarchate located near present-day
Istanbul. V
­ iscuso’s translation is based on his transcription of the
­handwritten Greek text. He provides this transcription, along with
translations of the 1874 ­Regulations of the ­Theological School and a
contemporary account of life at the school. This important volume
will appeal to historians of the Ottoman Empire and Christianity and
­general readers interested in ­religion and Christian dialogue.
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SPORTS / REGIONAL STUDIES
Illinois State
Redbirds Football
Dan Verdun
“The long and storied history of Illinois State
football is captured in fascinating detail in Dan
Verdun’s new book. The tales of the exploits
of players such as Dennis Nelson, Mike Prior,
Boomer Grigsby, and Marshaun Coprich transport us through the years of Redbird football.”
—Randy Reinhardt, Pantagraph beat
writer and ISU alumnus
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his first-ever
history of the Illinois
State University football
program chronicles Redbird
legends and lore, from the 1880s team to today’s Missouri Valley Football
Conference powerhouse. Dan Verdun covers the early years (1887 to
World War II) and the post-war era (late 1940s to 1950s) before delving
into a decade-­by-decade examination of the program. The 1950 Corn
Bowl team, playoff appearances, NFL draft picks, and the 2014 team’s
second-place finish in the FCS National Championship are all included. Opening with a foreword by James “Boomer” Grigsby, an ISU
all-­American linebacker who was drafted by the Kansas City Chiefs in
2005, Illinois State Redbirds Football includes many names that will be
­familiar to Illinois State fans, including Frank Chiodi, Guy Homoly,
Kevin Glenn, Laurent Robinson, Brock Spack, and Tre Roberson.
Informed by extensive research and personal interviews, Verdun relays
the inside ­stories of several players and explores the details of where they
came from, how they arrived at ISU, what they accomplished on the playing
field, and the paths their lives took after graduation. This engaging account retells the greatest moments in ISU Redbirds
history with fresh new insight. It will appeal to ISU fans and alumni, and
those fascinated by sports history and the history of the region will also
find much of interest in this comprehensive volume. Da n Ve rdun is a sports historian/journalist based in Naperville,
­Illinois. He is the author of Northern Illinois Huskies Football and
­Eastern Illinois Panthers Football, both published by NIU Press. ISBN 978-0-87580-759-1 eISBN 978-1-60909-214-6 November 2016 $39.95 t Cloth 8.5x11 250 pages 110 illus.
N E W I N PA P E R / B I O G R A P H Y / R U S S I A N H I S TO R Y
Alexander Yakovlev
The Man Whose Ideas Delivered
Russia from Communism
Richard Pipes
“In this slim, highly provocative book, Richard Pipes
engages in a much-needed exercise in historical
reparation. We have here the first biography of an
ideologue turned heretic and then apostate, whose
ideas begot, to a decisive extent, the collapse
of Lenin’s state. . . . In documenting Yakovlev’s
epiphany, Pipes makes a seminal contribution
to the literature on disenchantment, apostasy,
illumination, and awakening.”
—Times Higher Education
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R ic ha rd P i pe s is the Baird Professor Emeritus of History at Harvard
University. He is the author of numerous publications, including Communism: A History, Russia under the Old Regime, The Russian Revolution,
and Property and Freedom.
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s i g n i f i c a n t p o l i t i c a l f i g u r e in twentiethcentury Russia, Alexander Yakovlev was the intellectual force
behind the processes of perestroika (reconstruction) and glasnost’
(openness) that liberated the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe from
Communist rule between 1989 and 1991. Yet, until now, not a single
full-scale biography has been devoted to him. The main reason for this
deliberate oblivion is that the communists regard Yakovlev as their bête
noire, while the reformers prefer to give credit to Mikhail Gorbachev.
In his study of the unsung hero, Richard Pipes seeks to rectify this
lacuna and give Yakovlev his historical due. Yakovlev’s life provides a
unique instance of a leading figure in the Soviet government who evolved
from a dedicated Communist and Stalinist into an equally ardent foe of
everything the Leninist-Stalinist regime stood for. He quit government
service in 1991 and lived until 2005, becoming toward the end of his life a
classical Western liberal who shared none of the traditional Russian values.
This illuminating study consists of two parts: a biography of Yakovlev,
and Pipes’s translation of two important articles by Yakovlev.
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NEW IN PAPER / EUROPEAN HISTORY
Poland
The First Thousand Years
Patrice M. Dabrowski
“In this sprawling and ambitious work . . . Dabrowski
proceeds systematically from Poland’s foundational
myths, with their roots at the end of the first
millennium, to the fall of Communism and the
­establishment of democracy in 1989. Dabrowski
avoids academic prose, and even those with no
background will find the text engrossing.”
—Publishers Weekly
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ince Its Beginnings,
Poland has been a moving
target, geographically as well
as demographically, and the very definition of who is a Pole has been in
flux. In the late medieval and early modern periods, the country grew
to be the largest in continental Europe, only to be later wiped off the
map for more than a century. The Polish phoenix that rose out of the
ashes of World War I was obliterated by the joint Nazi-Soviet occupation
that ­began with World War II. The postwar entity known as Poland was
shaped and controlled by the Soviet Union. Yet Poles persisted in their
desire to wrest from their oppressors a modicum of national dignity and,
ultimately, managed to achieve much more than that.
This sweeping account is designed to amplify major figures, moments,
milestones, and turning points in Polish history, including important
­battles, illustrious individuals, and alliances forged by marriages and
choices of religious denomination. The experience of oppression helped
Poles to endure and surmount various challenges in the twentieth
­century, and Poland’s demonstration of strength was a model for other
peoples seeking to extract themselves from foreign yoke.
Patrice Dabrowski’s work situates Poland and the Poles within a broader
European framework that locates this multiethnic and multidenominational region squarely between East and West. This illuminating chronicle
will appeal to general readers and will be of special interest to those of
Polish descent.
Pat ri c e M. Da b rowski has taught at Harvard University, Brown
University, and the University of Massachusetts at Amherst and currently
works at the University of Vienna. She is the author of Commemorations
and the Shaping of Modern Poland.
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NEW IN PAPER / BIOGRAPHY / RUSSIAN HISTORY
Alexander I
The Tsar Who Defeated Napoleon
Marie-Pierre Rey
T R A N S L AT E D B Y S U S A N E M A N U E L
“The eminent French scholar Marie-Pierre Rey
has written a new biography of Tsar Alexander I
that should become the standard work in any
language. . . . Rey has produced a meticulously documented, and therefore largely persuasive, reading of a
tsar whom she finds neither vacillating nor enigmatic.”
—The Journal of Modern History
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M arie-P ierre R ey is professor of Russian and Soviet history and director of the Slavic Research Center at the University of Paris I (Sorbonne).
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Sus a n E ma nu e l has been a translator from the French for more than
twenty years, specializing in history, the social sciences, and biography.
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l e x a n d e r I wa s a
ruler with high aspirations
for the people of Russia.
Cosseted as a young grand duke by Catherine the Great, he ascended to
the throne in 1801 after the brutal assassination of his father. This authoritative biography illuminates the complex forces that shaped Alexander’s
tumultuous reign and sheds new light on the handsome ruler known to
his people as “the Sphinx.”
Despite an early commitment to sweeping political reforms, A
­ lexander
saw his liberal aspirations overwhelmed by civil unrest in his own country
and by costly confrontations with Napoleon, which culminated in the
French invasion of Russia and the burning of Moscow in 1812. Eventually, Alexander turned back Napoleon’s forces and entered Paris a victor
two years later. By then he had grown weary of military glory and had
become increasingly preoccupied with his own spiritual salvation, an
obsession that led him to pursue a rapprochement between the Orthodox
and Roman Churches.
When in exile, Napoleon remarked of his Russian rival: “He could go far.
If I die here, he will be my true heir in Europe.” It was not to be. Napoleon
died on Saint Helena in 1821, and Alexander succumbed to typhus four
years later. In this richly nuanced portrait, Marie-Pierre Rey breathes
new life into the tsar who stood at the center of early nineteenth-century
European politics, a key figure at the heart of diplomacy, war, and international intrigue during the region’s most tumultuous years.
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N E W I N PA P E R / B I O G R A P H Y / R E G I O N A L S T U D I E S
A Man of Salt and Trees
The Life of Joy Morton
James Ballowe
“Ballowe gives the reader a life that can be touched,
encompassed, and which feels natural. . . . As one
reads the book, Morton’s human side is clear
and fascinating.”
—Journal of Illinois History
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Man of Salt and
T r e e s is the first fulllength biography of Joy
Morton (1855–1934), founder of The
Morton Arboretum—an internationally acclaimed outdoor museum of
woody plants—and Morton Salt—the
brand that has been a household name in the United States for more than
a century. Using the voluminous correspondence of the Morton family,
Ballowe tells the story of the Nebraska farm boy who grew up to be a
leading citizen of Chicago and Illinois and a major figure in the nation’s
economic and technological development during the late nineteenth and
early twentieth centuries.
Morton left his mark in several areas, from business and city planning
to transportation and environmental preservation. He was a contributor to
the development of Daniel H. Burnham and Edward Bennett’s 1909 Plan
of Chicago and served on the Chicago Plan Commission. His interest in
transportation led him to become an investor and a director in railroad
transportation and a champion of inland waterway traffic. Toward the
end of his life, Morton funded the University of Chicago’s explorations of
Mississippian Indian culture in central Illinois and traveled throughout
the world, visiting ancient as well as modern cultures and gardens.
The Morton Arboretum stands today as an expression of a desire Joy
Morton had from childhood, when he learned from his father, the founder
of Arbor Day, and his mother, a dedicated gardener, that a necessary
complement to a good life is the cultivation and preservation of the
environment. Those interested in biographies and the history of the
Midwest will enjoy getting to know this successful businessman, philanthropist, and early environmentalist.
Ja me s Ba ll ow e is Distinguished Professor of English Emeritus at
Bradley University. He is the editor of George Santayana’s America: Essays
in Literature and Culture.
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Colbert, Mercantilism,
and the French Quest
for Asian Trade
Glenn J. Ames
“This is a well-researched, interesting narrative of
Jean Baptiste Colbert’s bid to create a Compagnie
des Indies Orientales capable of competing with the
Dutch Vereenigde Oost Indische Compagnie (VOC) in
the East Indies trade.”
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Gl e n n J. A me s (1955–2010) was professor of history at the University
of Toledo.
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his revisionist
e x a m i n a t i o n of
French trade with Asia
analyzes the concerted attempt of France under Louis XIV to establish
a mercantile empire in the East by breaking into the lucrative market of
the Indian Ocean. Between 1664 and 1674, under the direction of the
statesman Jean Baptiste Colbert, France advanced a vigorous strategy of
commerce and colonization. It founded the powerful East India Company and constructed a large royal fleet as the principal instrument for
entrenching French power in Asia.
Drawing on archival sources from Paris, Lisbon, London, The Hague,
and Goa, Glenn Ames offers a new interpretation of Bourbon France’s
mercantilism in the context of the rise of the world market economy
of the early modern period. An unparalleled conjuncture of events in
Europe and Asia favored French policy and gave rise to Colbert’s Asian
strategy. Basing his plan on anti-Dutch sentiments, Colbert temporarily
merged world market economy mercantile goals with traditional dynastic and continental foreign policies that had long dominated French
actions. Colbert was able to convince Louis XIV to supply both money
and might; however, once the Dutch War began, support for the project
waned. Traditional dynastic priorities reasserted themselves over mercantile goals, and Colbert’s innovative initiative in the Indian Ocean was
doomed to failure.
In addition to illuminating the politics behind Colbert’s establishment
of the East India Company and his creation of the royal fleet, Ames details
France’s efforts to reach an alliance with the English and Portuguese and
the eventual failure of this enterprise. The evidence presented here sheds
new light on the reign of Louis XIV, the mercantilist theories of Colbert,
the origins of the Dutch War, and the Asian trading empires of the French,
Dutch, English, and Portuguese during the late seventeenth century.
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